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    Travelmate 8200 reading SD card

    Discussion in 'Acer' started by jack1018, May 21, 2009.

  1. jack1018

    jack1018 Notebook Enthusiast

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    Hi, I am trying to figure out how to use the notebook card slot to read SD memory card. Thanks
     
  2. Mr.X

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    What's the problem?
    BTW - it only reads non-HC SD cards. (<=4gb)
     
  3. jack1018

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    I put the 1G SD card into the front slot (beside the power lights). Nothing happens. Driver is installed. The card is pushed in all the way.
     
  4. Mr.X

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    Right-side up? Card is good?
    Is the driver installed for the card reader?
    What do you see in device manager?
     
  5. jack1018

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    I put the card in with the contacts facing down. The card works on my desk top. I believe the driver is installed because there is no yellow exclaimations in device manager. Any ideas? Thanks
     
  6. kiriakost

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    Are you running any ACER software on the laptop ?

    If not, run it .

    And then check the ACER power management.

    From there you will enable the reader.
     
  7. jack1018

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    Would it be the Hard drive of the notebook is in NTFS format?
     
  8. Mooly

    Mooly Notebook Evangelist

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    The card will show as a drive in "computer" usually "F" Are you sure your card reader is enabled as kiriakost suggets ?
     
  9. jack1018

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    I don't know how to enable the card reader?
     
  10. kiriakost

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    If you give me the right answer , you will receive help .

    Speaking in a wall , its not my hobby .
     
  11. hoggie

    hoggie old boy

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    you need the acer launch manager for the card reader to work.
    I don't know why you need the launch manager but i removed the manager and my sd card reader stopped working.but so did all the media keys stop as well.
     
  12. Mooly

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    Vista or XP ? Sure it will be similar. Click the windows or start orb and type acer into the search box. You should find a full pdf user manual. Look under epower management or similar and make sure the "card bus" is enabled.
    Before you do any of that insert an SD card and click the start orb bottom left. Select " (my) computer" from the list and see if the card is showing as drive F.
     
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    XP Professional with all the latest drivers and updates. I do have the launch manager and the card bus is enabled via epower management. I have used electrical contact cleaner and comprerssed air to clean the card reader slot. Still no luck. I am stumbed.
     
  14. Mooly

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    Does the card show in "My computer" as a drive. Can't think of anything else really.
     
  15. jack1018

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    No it doesn't show in My Computer
     
  16. Mooly

    Mooly Notebook Evangelist

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    Sorry, can't think of anything else at the moment.
     
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    Sorry for bringing up an old thread. The status of the card reader has not changed. I welcome any input. Thanks
     
  18. Mooly

    Mooly Notebook Evangelist

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    Well... you have Acer ERecovery etc and I think that allows you to make full image backups from what I remember.

    I was thinking you could image your current setup, then reinstall to factory default image (as it was when new) and see if it works then... it should do but before you tried that perhaps someone could confirm that running ERecovery doesn't wipe the D partition with your user backups.

    Check that first before you actually did do that... unless you were prepared to do a full reinstall anyway of course. If not and you wanted to play around some more, then just go back to your disk image having "proved" it does actually work.

    Other things you perhaps could try would be to uninstall and then reinstall
    the card reader. Get the drivers from Acer website.
     
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    Thanks for the advice. I uninstalled and restart the machine. It would find the new hardware and installed the driver. However, the card reader still would't do anything when I inserted the SD card.
     
  20. Mooly

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    I really don't know what else to suggest.
    I know certain USB devices are not always reognised correctly by Windows... but I wouldn't like to say that has happened here.
    The factory reinstall would "prove" beyond reasonable doubt I guess... and if it doesn't work then that leaves a hardware fault, which is a bit unlikely really.
    How else to prove it though.
     
  21. AndrejaKo

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    Here's another idea, with card inserted open in start menu under administrative tools (or was it options in XP, can't remember. If you don't have that option, go to control panel, taskbar and start menu and enable it under start menu customization) Computer Management. On the left side go to storage->disk management. There you should see all hard disks, CD-ROM drives, flash drives and memory cards. It could happen that for some reason windows isn't assigning a drive letter to memory card. It happened to me once. If that is the case, right click on the memory card and you will have the option to assign it drive letter.
     
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    Tried and no go. I am giving up. Thanks for all the input.